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The Artificial Culture March 06, 2025
I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies ...
The Gender Vibe Shift and Its Discontents March 06, 2025
Twenty-six-year-old Miles Yardley — formerly known in downtown New York City as a musician, influencer, and model named Salomé — publicly renounced his trans identity this year, sold his women’s clothing online, and began posting grim details to his ...
A Liberal Writer Fails to Do the Work March 05, 2025
Inspired by the anger she felt at the passing of her working-class grandfather, Disposable (America’s Contempt for the Underclass) by New York Magazine writer Sarah Jones, offers capsule summaries of the lives of several Americans and then accounts o...
Notes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture March 03, 2025
This week, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo published chat logs from an internal employee messaging service at the National Security Agency. “These logs,” he wrote, “dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of se...
On Gender in Contemporary Fiction February 20, 2025
I want to begin with what this is not. A definition by negation. Two exes have accused me of doing this trick all the time. It feels relevant to mention only because, as with most things in a guy’s life, this is all about women....
It's Always High School February 18, 2025
The writer Elizabeth Ellen earned my admiration in October of 2022 when, as the Deputy Editor of literary journal Hobart Pulp, she defied the then-reigning orthodoxy of cancellations and speech-policing and published an interview containing taboo, fo...
The Gender Divide Is a Class Divide October 17, 2024
This week, Kamala Harris released her “opportunity agenda for black men,” promising targeted loans, protection of crypto assets, and weed legalization, among other policies. It’s just the latest sign that her campaign knows it is doing historically p...
Election 2024: Boys vs. Girls October 15, 2024
“If you come up to me and tell me you’re a Trump supporter, like, I’m not even gonna associate myself with you,” said 19-year-old Lamia during a series of focus groups I observed for young people split by gender in Philadelphia last month. Like the o...
DEI Is Transforming the National Science Foundation October 10, 2024
If you thought the august National Science Foundation focused only on string theory or the origins of life, you haven’t spent much time in a university lab lately. Thanks to a major shift endorsed by the Biden administration, recent grants have gone ...
Sex and Conservative Hot Girls October 07, 2024
“Who is the conservative hot girl, and what does she mean for politics?” Newsweek asked earlier this week. To answer this question, the article purports to speak with “experts” on the matter who ended up, (shocker), chalking it up to “gender stereoty...
Judith Butler vs. Judy! September 13, 2024
Warning in a 1992 interview against a “bad reading” of her landmark Gender Trouble (1990), Judith Butler insisted, “I decide what gender I want to be today” was not what she had meant. Such an understanding, by which gender would be something changea...
The Growing Gender Divide, Three Minutes at a Time September 02, 2024
My friends gave me a bit of grief for the headline of one of my recent articles: “The ‘Espresso’ Theory of Gender Relations.” The title, admittedly, was a bit heady for a story about a catchy song full of beverage-related puns. Was I overintellectual...
Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flights June 25, 2024
Everyone has their own tricks for staving off boredom on a long-haul flight. Some people load up on podcast episodes, others power through the available in-flight entertainment. But no one simply sits, staring silently at the real-time flight map on ...
J. K. Rowling and the Hate Monster June 25, 2024
Let me tell you about an intense time in British politics: one where Scotland’s hate speech legislation came into force, the final Cass Review into paediatric gender medicine was published, a UK general election was called, and Nigel Farage made a tr...
What to Do About the Gender Divide June 24, 2024
A few months ago, Financial Times columnist John Burn-Murdoch wrote a viral piece describing the growing gender divide between the men and women of my generation (Gen Z). Its conclusions were pretty concerning: men are becoming more conservative, whi...
Decolonizing the Drugstore June 18, 2024
Mandatory ideological training has now come to the drugstore. In California, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, in order to keep their license, must study the latest in gender identity, colonialism, and white privilege. Such “cultural competency” ...
Paintings About Painting June 18, 2024
It was a treat to enter the Grey Art Museum’s “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62” (on view through July 20). Taking in the museum’s first room, I immediately noticed that the pictures carried no didactic messages, were n...
Why ‘Reactionary Feminism’ Is Destined to Fail June 10, 2024
In the name of freedom, contemporary feminism has embraced gender transition, the Pill, abortion, casual sex, and the delegation of care to industry. In doing so, it has lied to women. You too can be men, it has told them. You can leave your female b...
The Gender-Equality Paradox June 10, 2024
In most wealthy nations, women have been steadily closing the gap with men on several fronts. In the United States, women now earn the majority of the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Women now receive more than half of STEM college degree...
Parents Take Control June 04, 2024
During Covid, America’s public school teachers received full pay to stop doing their jobs, often for over a year. Officially, to be clear, Zoom school was in session. But “teaching” via Zoom was barely better than nothing. Zoom schools offered little...
The State of the Gay Bar June 04, 2024
Queer nightlife is full of dreams, which at their best improve waking life. Coiled within conventional hopes for an evening is a utopian vision of society. “No one man owns house / because house music is a universal language,” Chuck Roberts announced...
England As It Once Was May 20, 2024
Most of Guy Ritchie’s movies have been stories of friendship between men, attempts to restore a much-needed confidence in a gender-neutral era. His rock music-video montages, clever dialogue, often in slang, and romantic interest in the criminal unde...
Gen Z’s Gender Stalemate May 20, 2024
Sex and politics are clickbait material, so it’s little surprise that The Economist’s early March article “Why Young Men and Women Are Drifting Apart” went viral. In this case, the attention was warranted. The article adds to our understanding of the...
Our Dystopian Future Is Inside Your Gambling App May 07, 2024
Earlier this month, basketball player Jontay Porter, former Toronto Raptors benchwarmer, saw his short and unimpressive NBA career come to an abrupt end. This severe penalty stems from his involvement in a gambling scheme that exploited his access to...
Lauren Southern: My Tradlife Turned into a Nightmare May 06, 2024
Does promoting marriage and motherhood inevitably make women easy targets for subordinate status, increased vulnerability, and a return to second-class status? One of the very first columns I wrote at UnHerd, back in 2019, described how, for me, beco...
